We killed a homeless man on this bench. Me and Dru. Those were good times. You know, he begged for mercy, and you know, that only made her bite harder.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Calli - May 21, 2015 5:46:58 pm PDT #26888 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Hey, Steph, a friend of mine does a bunch of freelance editing and I mentioned one of my invisible Internet friends did, too. Anyway, she said if you were interested she'd like to network. I think she gets asked to work on medical/sciencey journals that aren't quite her thing. Anyway, if you'd like me to put you in touch with her, hit me up via my profile addy. I'm heading bedward now, but I'll check tomorrow.


-t - May 21, 2015 6:08:07 pm PDT #26889 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Earthquake. Apparently 4.1 near Yountville. Felt like someone shaking the couch, if the couch was on stilts or something. Weird.

My Quakes app appears to be entirely useless, all it does it tell me it failed to register for remote push notifications.


Burrell - May 21, 2015 6:10:16 pm PDT #26890 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Glad you aren't too shaken up, -t


-t - May 21, 2015 6:13:16 pm PDT #26891 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yeah, not bad. I can't find any news about damage in Yountville, so hopefully they are all okay up there.


Zenkitty - May 21, 2015 6:28:44 pm PDT #26892 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Jeopardy just taught me that "oculogyric" refers to rolling your eyes

Can we verb that? oculogyring?


Consuela - May 21, 2015 6:30:14 pm PDT #26893 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Funny, -t, I felt nothing. Ah, well, I am significantly SW of you.


Consuela - May 21, 2015 6:32:32 pm PDT #26894 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Tomorrow is my day off and I am: going running; attending a work telecon for a project I just inherited and know almost nothing about (sigh); signing the contract for my kitchen to get remodeled; getting my hair cut; GETTING A MASSAGE YAY.

Somewhere in there I will have to get lunch.

Today on the way home I stopped at the chichi new wine bar near my office and had a glass of wine and some bruschetta, which was yummy. And fairly cheap, as it was happy hour.

I have the new Naomi Novik novel on my Kindle.

Things could be worse.


P.M. Marc - May 21, 2015 6:38:00 pm PDT #26895 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

There really shouldn't be HIPAA issues if everything is within Kaiser. Or cross platform issues, one would think, but who knows what kind of standards they have for that.

Cross platform would apply to a solution developed by a 3rd party, but any solution used, even if it is developed in-house, has to comply with HIPAA security standards, which are strict as hell for good reason. It's incredibly expensive, complex, and has more moving pieces than you can shake a stick at.

When I say rocket science would be simpler, I am not kidding. I get to hear about the pain points re: developing solutions in this space a lot.


billytea - May 21, 2015 6:53:55 pm PDT #26896 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

My Quakes app appears to be entirely useless, all it does it tell me it failed to register for remote push notifications.

Remote push notifications are kind of its core responsibility. You had ONE JOB, Quakes!


meara - May 21, 2015 7:07:15 pm PDT #26897 of 30000

I can has temporary kitten! Little black sneezy yowly poopy kitten.

Also, a car with a caved-in back door. :( Dude rear-ended me (I was stopped...he was...not) with his work pickup truck, so it hit the spare tire that is in the middle of the back of the car (it's a mini-SUV) and it just sorta caved the whole thing in a bit. It seems to still open and close some. His car was worse off (leaking some fluid, the front bumper almost off, the hood bent). But I figure it will be awfully expensive to fix (replace?) the back door of my car. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing? How does this go? I have never actually had an accident where my car was more than marginally dinged (...there are a ton of dings and bumps on my car, but some are me running into a pole, or my garage, or one big dent in the passenger door that happened mysteriously back when I was parking on a DC street). The car is only worth maybe $4K?